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What to do With the Rest of My Life…
Let us suppose, for the purpose of conversation, That I will live no longer than did my father, A few days past his eighty-seventh birthday. I am now less than half-way past seventy-eight. No, no, I feel perfectly well. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Brahms, Conrad Pavellas, death, Gardening, life, retirement, The News, weltschmerz, work, Writing, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Music for my Funeral
No, I am not anticipating my demise at any particular time. My physician assures me I am in pretty good shape for the shape I’m in. Perhaps we all have fantasies about what people will do and say subsequent to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brian Eno, Chopin, Grieg, Haydn, Hovhaness, Khachaturian, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Philip Glass, Rachmaninov, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Tschaikovsky, Vivaldi
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The Pavellas Perspective 